Politics

July 4th With Obama’s Communist Mentor

Jul. 4, 2012 12:50pm

- Executive Director, The Center for Vision & Values

Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College, executive director of The Center for Vision & Values, and author of the book, “The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor.” His other books include "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism" and "Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century."

Editor’s note: This information is taken from Paul Kengor’s new book forthcoming from Mercury Ink, The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor.

 

This July 4, 2012, America stands at the cusp—or looking at the abyss—of the “fundamental” and “transformational” change that Barack Obama promised four years ago. Ironically, it was also fundamental and transformational change that Barack Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, promised this exact time 66 years ago.

A devoted Communist Party member, Frank Marshall Davis, on July 6, 1946, published a column for the kick-off edition of the Chicago Star. The Star was the communist newspaper for Chicago, known among locals as the “RedStar.” Davis was not only a columnist but the founding editor-in-chief. Joining him in the newspaper was a fascinating cast of characters, from literal Soviet agents to the likes of Senator Claude “Red” Pepper, who during his time at the Starwas championing a bill to nationalize healthcare in the United States, a bill written by his chief of staff, Charles Kramer, who we now know was a Soviet agent. Frank Marshall Davis himself called for taxpayer-subsidized “universal healthcare.”

In fact, Davis and his Star comrades would urge many things that sound eerily similar to Barack Obama’s presidency today. They blasted big business, Wall Street, big banks, big oil, “profits,” “millionaires” and corporate executives for not paying their “fair” share. They urged that wealth be redistributed to “health insurance” and “public works projects.” They targeted General Motors for government action. They despised anti-communists like Winston Churchill and singled out the Catholic Church as an obstacle to their vision for the state. And as they did, Davis and his comrades called themselves “progressives.”

Such policy initiatives would populate the Star throughout Frank Marshall Davis’s editorship. In that first issue, however, intended to coincide with the commemoration of America’s birthday, Davis launched the newspaper with a special column titled, “Those Radicals of ’76.”

The Star’s launch around the July 4 holiday was no coincidence, as Davis sought to identify the Star with the Stars & Stripes; that is, with the principles of the American Founders. It would be a “modern Declaration of Independence” by new “spiritual descendants … of 1776.”

“It seems to me,” Frank Marshall Davis wrote, “the time has come for a new Declaration of Independence, to be implemented at the polls by the plain people such as you and I, which will remove the chains forged about us by the big money boys and their mouthpieces.”

Applying the language of the Marxist dialectic (without naming Marx), Davis noted that all radicals of “past and present” “anticipate the logical course of history and lead humanity on its way.” “So it was in 1776; so it is today.” Like “this nation’s forefathers in the 18th century,” exhorted Davis, it was time to “force into effect a modern Declaration of Independence.”

This invocation of the American Founding by Davis was absurd, as nothing was further from the Founding than communism. Nonetheless, it was a common tactic by American communists, and has been likewise for the progressive movement for 100 years. Of course, Barack Obama himself invokes the Founding, when it suits his purposes.

And speaking of Obama, Frank Marshall Davis, in this column launching his newspaper and his communist cause, preached a very Obama-like mantra of “change.” Davis averred: “If history teaches us anything, it teaches that any fundamental change advancing society is spearheaded by strong radicals.”

Davis himself imparted this to Obama. As reported by Dr. Kathryn Takara, a University of Hawaii professor who was personally close to Frank Marshall Davis and a Davis biographer, Davis “nurtured a sense of possibility” in Obama, including “a sense of believing that change can happen.”

Think of the irony and relevance of this today, as Barack Obama, mentored by Frank Marshall Davis, seeks “fundamental change” in advancing American society in a direction advocated by him and his strong radicals. This is the “sense of possibility” that Obama has imparted to his fellow progressives.

Our mentors matter. Shame on the media for not vetting Obama and looking into mentors like Frank Marshall Davis. We’re paying the consequences now, this July 4, 2012, 66 years after Frank Marshall Davis, another “change agent,” launched his personal revolution, one today carried in the person of Barack Obama, and projected upon all of us.

 


Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College. His new book is The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. He is also author of Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.  

Comments (26)

  • mbriz
    Jul. 8, 2012 at 5:17pm

    wackadoddledo. More red meat for the brain dead.

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  • sbenard
    Jul. 8, 2012 at 9:03am

    Another book suggests that Davis was likely the REAL father of Kim Jong Obama. It’s a pretty compelling case! I would love to have a genetic test done! Frank Marshall Davis took pictures of Obama’s mother nude in his home! Makes you wonder what was going on that he took those pics! I’ve seen a few of those pictures with certain body parts “redacted”. Why else would Hiss Unholy Insolence’s white grandparents have made Davis the mentor to the Pied Piper of Communism who is now in the White House?

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  • great white hunter
    Jul. 6, 2012 at 7:51pm

    Let’s see.. frank marshal davis was a friend of grandaddy dunham. ..hmm… I wonder if he introduced his 15 year old daughter and her friends to this commie pig…I wonder…was he also into photography? Nah…this is starting to sound like rosemary’s baby…

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  • momprayn
    Jul. 6, 2012 at 5:32pm

    Agree with about all comments – however – as to Obama’s real father I used to think Davis was also until I read about Malcolm X from another blogger. Compare their looks — my guess is he is the real father. Anyway – here is a great site re his very, very convoluted Communist past background……..

    http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/how-could-stanl.html

    Another: http://www.commieblaster.com

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    • shorthanded12
      Jul. 8, 2012 at 12:23am

      Ive always thought that too..Daddy X is Barrys real father….thats why all the secretive over this birth certificate….and wasnt mommy Dunham in Chicago with Daddy X also..i know i read that some where.

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  • Gary1206
    Jul. 6, 2012 at 5:23pm

    We’re all wasting our time. No one will believe you (proof is they haven’t yet) and when you start throwing words around such as marxist, communist, socialist and Manchurian candidate, we’re pegged as right-wing nut jobs. Please don’t flame me but if you’re compelled to argue just try to refute the point.
    The republic is lost; we’re all socialists now. Kinda like the plot in “Invasion of the Bodysnatchers”…pretty soon there will be no conservatives/libertarians left. Don’t accept your pod and don’t go to sleep.

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  • Patrick Henry II
    Jul. 6, 2012 at 4:48pm

    I and Brieghtbart believethat Frank Marshal Davis is Barrack’s biological father. He also has good proof to back it up including Frank’s naked pics of Ms. Stan Durham.

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  • frogg
    Jul. 6, 2012 at 4:23pm

    I said this Obama was a sleeper agent. I guess that it’s a shame that the USSR died before Obama got elected. We eally got to vote this Boob out of office!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • JediKnight
    Jul. 6, 2012 at 3:42pm

    Everyone needs to share this through all possible forms (social media, email, etc). Share it far and wide. This is EXACTLY what Allen West is talking about. They are communists but they’re calling themselves “progressives”. Call it what you want, it’s all the same evil thing.

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  • libh8er
    Jul. 6, 2012 at 3:40pm

    Now I understand why he had Bill Ayers write that book, Dreams from my father…. Barack Sr must have just been a composite father…. The dreams were really from his real father.

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  • dennisS
    Jul. 6, 2012 at 3:26pm

    The disadvantage that Conservatism has with Communism is that Conservatives are restrained by morals and Communists are not. Thus in the head to head fighting in the political arena Conservatives are always fighting from a politically weak position because compromise is the god of the politician. Compromise with evil always results in evil winning because good cannot be compromised. Unless the American people wake up and embrace what is good and moral we have absolutely no chance at defeating the Communists.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Jul. 6, 2012 at 3:26pm

    we’ve known about Barry’s communist mentor and all the radicals the Marxist POS surrounded himself with his entire life. It’s just too bad the so called media chose not to inform the masses of the Marxist bastard prior to his election in 08. They didn’t expose the Marxist for what he is because his agenda mirrors their’s and they knew if they did expose him he’d never win,the ‘media’ has helped the Marxist POS destroy America and that’s been his goal from day one.

    He wants to create a communist state here,that’s his ‘fundamental transformation of America’ and the Marxist told the country exactly what he was going to do and the lemmings lined up and gave him the power to do it. If Barry wins in November then socialized medicine can’t be killed unless the republicans get veto proof majorities in both houses,that’s the final chance to put that evil law in the garbage where it belongs.

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  • BloodSweatandTears
    Jul. 6, 2012 at 2:41pm

    Is this what it looks like from the edge….of no return? Or not? Funny how the popular children’s saying ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,’ led us to believe words have no power. It seems words- and the thoughts they originate from, have great power in changing the course of human events. Don’t underestimate your individual power to create change either.

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  • rbcintexas
    Jul. 6, 2012 at 2:36pm

    It is not just Obama, during his frist two years in his Presidency, the Communist also took over Congress and rammed things thru. Nancy Pelosi is a known Socialist along with Harry Reed. It is going to take people demanding that the newly elected Congress begin rolling back everything that Pelosi, Reed and Obama have done. It is time for another set of McCarthy hearings because we are being inaudated with Communist, Marxist and Socialist. How is that a member of Congress (Maxine Waters) sit in the chanber and tell private companies that she is all about Socializing their companies? Twenty or thrity years ago, if that comment was made in chambers, that person would have been forced out of Congress that very day yet we hardly heard a word about it from the mainstream media. We must begin the purge of Communist from our political foundations and make these people known fro what they are, a threat to our national security and sovereignty.

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  • PATTY HENRY
    Jul. 6, 2012 at 10:20am

    What a great dis-service both men have done to the people of our country. This is what hatred looks like.

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  • OneWithGodistheMajority
    Jul. 6, 2012 at 12:38am

    Why are there only 4 comments? THIS SHOULD BE EVERYWHERE!!!

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  • billo
    Jul. 5, 2012 at 11:28pm

    This stuff needs to be “Front Page News” somewhere, not buried in the middle of “The Blaze”!! Thanks for at least putting it where I have access to this information.

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    billo  
  • CrawfishFestival2
    Jul. 5, 2012 at 10:08am

    Radicals are deranged people – more thirsty to control the masses – other than “honoring” Humanity to maintain co-existence – and individual freedoms.

    Radicals are sinister cowards – w unhealthy minds, who “intend” to lie and deceive people – to further conceal what they are really about – in wanting to force people to kowtow to their ideology – through man-made disasters – fear and intimidation tactics.

    With their disconnection to reality, no wonder these Radicals as Predators of society view pedophila as just an element of life.

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  • CrawfishFestival2
    Jul. 5, 2012 at 7:57am

    the famous pedophile’s legacy

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  • bdandsl
    Jul. 4, 2012 at 7:19pm

    Like father, like son?

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